Of the many transcriptions and arrangements of JJMoD, this is by far
my favorite. I first heard this rendition on the Windham Hill Winter
Solstice album.

The principal characteristic of this piece is that it sounds as if
it is played with a capo in the high frets. In fact, Mr. Qualey
recorded the piece using an octave guitar, with nylon strings one
octave high, in a drop D tuning.

I have recreated this piece on a conventional guitar in open A tuning
(E A E A C# E low to high), with a capo on the ninth fret. You'll
need some sort of cutaway acoustic to reach the upper frets. Without
a cutaway, you could try to transpose the piece by moving the capo
(I opted to tab absolute fret numbers, rather than frets relative
to the capo .. you can use a text editor to change your TAB).
However, there is a seven fret stretch in the piece which may not
be feasible on the lower frets. Moreover, the higher pitch of this
arrangement is key to its angelic atmosphere.

The original Qualey arrangement is available on CD from Guitar Solo
in San Francisco (# 415-386-7660 as of Sep, 95). This, and other
David Qualey arrangements may be found in his books "Guitar Solo"
and/or "Classical Fingerstyle POP Classics".

E|--1-----------------0--------|-----------------------------|
B|-----3--0--------1-----1-----|--------------------1--0-----|
G|-----------0--2-----------2--|-----0--2--------2--------2--|
D|-----------------------------|--4--------0--4--------------|
A|-----------------------------|-----------------------------|
D|-----------5-----------------|--0--------0--------0--------|
^
this measure sounds odd to me, but I left it as original (tjl)

The piece is in 3/4 time, but it feels more like a 3/8 time.
Almost the entire thing is in triplets like the diagram below. All of
the notes within each triplet are two spaces apart, and there are four
spaces between triplets, and three triplets per bar.